The most striking thing in the new 28 Years Later trailer isn’t the visuals, as arresting as they are. It’s the soundtrack.

The trailer promoting the third film in director Danny Boyle’s 28 zombie movie series was shot on a iPhone 15 Pro Max, but what really stands out is the recording that accompanies the scenes of walkers, skull towers, and one zombie who looks especially familiar.

The clip, which begins inauspiciously with a snippet of the old Teletubbies TV show, gets dark as the needle drops with a hiss on a phonograph recording made in 1915 of actor Taylor Holmes reading the haunting Rudyard Kipling poem “Boots.”

The poem’s tempo mimics a soldier marching towards war and all the horrors that await him on the field of battle, and the staccato delivery grows ever more intense as the poem reaches its climax, with Holmes proclaiming “There’s no discharge in the war!” over and over again. The visuals can hardly keep up with the terrifying feeling the poem evokes.

The trailer gives us a recap of how 10,228 days earlier a zombie infestation overwhelmed the Brits, who were not prepared for the onslaught. Titles inform us that “days became weeks” and “weeks became years” as we zero in on a remote island of survivors who have seemingly regressed to a more simple, and superstitious way of life.

28 Years Later stars Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Erin Kellyman and Jack O’Connell, and we see them in survival mode throughout the clip. There is also a brief flash of an emaciated zombie who bears more than a little resemblance to 28 Days Later star Cillian Murphy, who reportedly had a part in this film.

The official description tells us that “It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.”

28 Years Later may be the capper on Boyle’s trilogy but will also serve as the first in a new trilogy of sequel films by Boyle and writer Alex Garland. It was shot back-to-back with 28 Years Later II: The Bone Temple, the second film in the trilogy, directed by Nia DaCosta. Filming has not yet begun on the third film. Both Boyle and Garland produced 28 Weeks Later, which was directed by Juan Carlos Fersnadillo.

28 Years Later will be marching into theaters on June 20th, 2025.